Informatics mail server
The central mail server is mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de. All in- and outbound e-mail must be routed through this machine. All access to other machines in the network through the SMTP-protocol is blocked by the departments firewall.
Additionally e-mails originating from outside of the department to mailhost.informatik.uni-hamburg.de are checkend by a virus scanner and a spam filter. Any recognized virus will be moved into quarantine. E-mails, which are categorized as spam, are tagged, but will be delivered to the receiver.